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  1. I tried to tell the Large Skipper #butterfly it was late for the #PollinatorPals challenge, but it insisted on posing on this rather nice Marsh Thistle at Ravensroost Wood #Wiltshire #WildlifeTrust reserve at lunchtime, so I wasn't going to argue. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography #UKWildlife

  2. I tried to tell the Large Skipper #butterfly it was late for the #PollinatorPals challenge, but it insisted on posing on this rather nice Marsh Thistle at Ravensroost Wood #Wiltshire #WildlifeTrust reserve at lunchtime, so I wasn't going to argue. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography #UKWildlife

  3. It was good to catch up with fellow trustees of The South & West Wales Wildlife Trust for Christmas dinner and walk at Teifi Marshes, Welsh Wildlife Centre. Weather was poor but always nice to visit the centre!

    #Cilgerran #Ceredigion #Pembrokeshire #Teifi #WildlifeTrust #Wales #Cymru

  4. Bid to save early #rewilding site that hosts rare #nightingales and #TurtleDoves

    #Conservationists have launched a £1.5 million appeal to buy #farmland that was left to #nature 37 years ago

    by Emily Beament
    Tuesday 18 June 2024

    "A farm left to nature years before 'rewilding' rose to prominence has become a unique and important site for wildlife, say conservationists launching a bid to save it.

    "The owner of Strawberry Hill, near Bedford, stopped farming his land 37 years ago, with once-arable fields reverting to #scrubland that is now a haven for a host of #wildlife including threatened nightingales, #cuckoos and turtle doves.

    "But the 150-hectare (377-acre) site has no official designations or protections, and following the owner’s death, there were fears the land could be sold and returned to agriculture.

    "After gaining a temporary stay of execution for the site, the #WildlifeTrust for Beds, Cambs and Northants (#BCN) has raised enough money to buy half the land.

    "Now the conservation charity is launching a £1.5 million appeal to secure the whole site, saving the habitat and its rich wildlife and providing a 'unique' opportunity to have a decades-long head start on rewilding the land for nature."

    independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

    #StrawberryHillsForever #Rewilding #RewildingUK #BedfordEngland

  5. Bid to save early #rewilding site that hosts rare #nightingales and #TurtleDoves

    #Conservationists have launched a £1.5 million appeal to buy #farmland that was left to #nature 37 years ago

    by Emily Beament
    Tuesday 18 June 2024

    "A farm left to nature years before 'rewilding' rose to prominence has become a unique and important site for wildlife, say conservationists launching a bid to save it.

    "The owner of Strawberry Hill, near Bedford, stopped farming his land 37 years ago, with once-arable fields reverting to #scrubland that is now a haven for a host of #wildlife including threatened nightingales, #cuckoos and turtle doves.

    "But the 150-hectare (377-acre) site has no official designations or protections, and following the owner’s death, there were fears the land could be sold and returned to agriculture.

    "After gaining a temporary stay of execution for the site, the #WildlifeTrust for Beds, Cambs and Northants (#BCN) has raised enough money to buy half the land.

    "Now the conservation charity is launching a £1.5 million appeal to secure the whole site, saving the habitat and its rich wildlife and providing a 'unique' opportunity to have a decades-long head start on rewilding the land for nature."

    independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

    #StrawberryHillsForever #Rewilding #RewildingUK #BedfordEngland

  6. I accidentally deleted the second half of my #Introduction so trying again-
    "Occasional" pictures of #ducks sometimes days apart others several in a day. Mostly #mallards as they're most common locally and I mostly practice #LowCarbonBirding. I'm interested in #Ecology, #Birds, #Birdwatching, #Birding, #WildFowl
    Depressed by #ClimateCrisis, #Ecocide, #Overdevelopment, #Politics
    Cheered by #Rewilding, #Nature, #Cycling, being a #BadBirdwatcher
    Member of the #RSPB, #WWT and #WildlifeTrust